The Town Dweller: His Needs and His Wants |
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The Town Dweller: His Needs and His Wants Benjamin Ward Richardson, Sir,J Milner Fothergill No preview available - 2016 |
The Town Dweller, His Needs and His Wants (Classic Reprint) John Milner Fothergill No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 16 - Hence, too, might be drawn a weighty lesson from the little-regarded truth, that the act of the passing generation is the germ which may and must produce good or evil fruit, in a far distant time; that, together with the seed of the merely temporary crop, which mortals term expediency, they inevitably sow the acorns of a more enduring growth, which may darkly overshadow their posterity.
Page 66 - Science, which accuses us of so much in these respects, will have in the first place to ascertain whether it depend on sensual and sinful inclinations merely, that every people of the globe has appropriated some such means of acting on the nervous life...